Well family and friends we can thankfully say we found a toilet only a few villages away from our free camp. We would like to thank the NZ tourism board and the contracters who build the toilets and our biggest tahnks go out to our parents for our amazing colons....... So we hit the road after breakfast by the beach. Another fairly windy drive but we did finally reach ou destination Dunedin, the City of people, Worlds steepest hill and The Cadburys factory. We p...

We had the most awesome drive to Lake Tekapo from Akaroa the landscape changed again and again. We got to a point where we drove around ther corner and saw in the horizon mountains with peaks of snow and we had to pull over to just stare in amazment, it was definetly a WOW moment. I guess the biggest WOW came when we rounded the hill and there was Lake Tekapo in all its glory. On the southern end was the Church Of Good Shepard which looked directly over. The Lake...

So they say the South Island has amazing scenery and we just wanted to get out there and see it!! We left christchurch and drove through a tunnell and literally on the other side was amazing scenery...gorgous green hills, with gorgous blue lakes the camera came out immediately and we were wowing!!! we took a scenic route to Akaroa which is just out on a peninsula to the side of christchurch, we drove through really winding roads with loads of sheep on the hills. ...

So after a ferry, train and plane ride we arrived in christchurch slightly disorientated from getting up so early and also because everything looked quite english!! the weather was grey and chilly too. We arrived a t a nice hostel called the old country house and felt a little bit sad thinking about Australia!!! After a good sleep and several cuppas we felt ready to face the challenge of getting a new van to explore NZ with. We headed to the backapcker car market...